President erdogan said he condemns what he called a barbaric attack by israel. The white house says it is deeply disturbed by the incident. deeply disturbed by the incident. , , incident. First things first let's find _ incident. First things first let's find out _ incident. First things first let's find out exactly incident. First things first| let's find out exactly what happened and we will draw the necessary conclusions. Consequences from that. As you heard me say many times before i have no higher priority than the safety and protection of american citizens around the world, wherever there. It is something that i take the utmost seriousness. So we have more information and we will share it, make that available and, as necessary, we will act on it. ... on it. Our international correspondent on it. Our international correspondent sent on it. Our international| correspondent sent this on it. Our international correspondent sent this report. Aysenur eygi had been taking part in a protest in the northern west bank. It was organised, one of many taking place in recent weeks to protest against the increased expansion of settlements in the west bank and it is said by local media israeli police had opened fire on those taking part in the demonstration and also used stun grenades and tear gas to try and put a stop to it and during this the young american was hit in the head by a bullet. She was taken to a hospital in nablus and later died. The facts are still being cleared up. The israelis say they are investigating what happened. They admit their forces opened fire after stones were thrown at the soldiers, they say threatening those people, but they say they haven't yet determined exactly what led to the death of the american. It is one of those situations where the americans say they will not point fingers either but they want the facts, and the us secretary of state, antony blinken, has said this is a tragic loss and he will do all he can to try to uncover what has happened. When we look at the west bank, we can see the number of settlers that's increased over the years. There are something like 700,000 now across the west bank including eastjerusalem, and the number of attacks by settlers on palestinians, especially palestinian villages, has increased a lot, and that has been a great cause of worry. Recently, america decided to issue sanctions against a number of individuals and entities too to try and put a stop to this but so far there is no sign of that stopping, carrying on and causing increasing concern across notjust the west bank but the western world too. Elsewhere in the occupied west bank, the israeli army has withdrawn from jenin after an operation lasting nearly ten days. The palestinian health ministry says 36 people were killed in one of israel's largest operations in the west bank in years. Residents were displaced as israeli forces damaged buildings and other infrastructure in the northern west bank. People are now returning home, though water and electricity remain mostly cut off injenin, from where lucy williamson sent this update. Israel's troops and bulldozers have leftjenin camp now but the impact they had is written all across the streets here. This camp was the heart of israel's sweep across the northern west bank. They were here for 9. 5 days and this morning is the first time that residents have been able to leave their homes, see the destruction around them or, in some cases, come back to homes that they fled days ago. Israel says this was a counterterrorist operation and it is clear that its target was the armed palestinian groups that are based here. But the methods it is using are what are raising alarm. That does notjust mean the civilians killed and injured but the level of destruction that are wrecking people's lives. Lucy williamson, bbc news, jenin camp. I spoke with hussein ibish, senior resident scholar at the arab gulf states institute in washington. How do you describe what we have been witnessing in the west bank? extreme provocation is the only term for it. I think israel, for whatever reason, has decided to throw the gloves off in the west bank and go after the armed youth groups especially in jenin. I think there may be another operation like this elsewhere at some point, another hotbed of armed young men unaffiliated with any of the larger groups. And i think there is a sense of heightened anger, animosity and also paranoia that started to creep into the israeli behaviour in the west bank. It is notjust a matter of expanding settlements in provocative ways, but also of orchestrating attacks of the government, orchestrating attacks by israeli settlers that are like ku klux kla nstyle nighttime things where villages are suddenly descended upon and innocent people are killed and stuff is destroyed and they disappear in the night. And now we have the shooting. If i could ask you, you are saying that these are settlers carrying out raids, you said that there are armed groups in the west bank. To what extent do they pose a threat to the communities there and to the idf? they have not posed much of a threat to the idf, they have not launched an insurgency that like the one that developed in gaza where hamas continues to pop up all over gaza and israelis have destroyed everything above ground of any value and they don't know what to do. And are being sucked into a quagmire of insurgency and counterinsurgency there. There is nothing like that in the west bank. It is a theoretical threat and, of course, they do engage occasionally and armed confrontation or sometimes criminal activity but it is the settlers, really, who have been on a rampage, not the armed palestinian gangs in the inner cities. And we have seen the us impose sanctions on some extremist settlers and fighting does continuing gaza and the dispute over the gazaegypt border seems to be a roadblock to a ceasefire. Where do you assess where things stand right now? i think it is clear that prime minister netanyahu does not want anything to do with this potential ceasefire, probably because he fears, realistically, that if there were six weeks of relative calm that also produce prisoner exchanges and the release of hostages and things like that, that would be pleasing on both sides of the equation and it looked like, you know, both parties were getting more from talking and making deals and continuing fighting then he might get dragged into a permanent ceasefire that would allow hamas to reemerge in gaza as either a governing force or a potential military force. He wants nothing to do with that. He wants the war to continue and this insurgency counterinsurgency to go on for years. That is precisely my next question, the accusation from the israelis is the fact that hamas killed six hostages before they were found is proof that hamas is not interested either. I would tend to agree with that. I think that is evidence and proof but evidence of that, certainly is plenty more. I think you can generally see that the hamas leadership in gaza believes that this has all been very beneficial and would like it to go on. But they would like a pause to regroup their forces now that the war is turning into a prolonged insurgency. That would be useful. They would love to get some prisoners back and get credit for that because they have been under political pressure in gaza because people, some people are starting to realise it was all theirfault to begin with. And then there is the sense in which they want to use an insurgency to claim leadership of the palestinian national movement and that was a goal to begin with. I don't think hamas wants a ceasefire either but they would take a pause if they could sell it as a ceasefire. They need that proviso that allows the ceasefire to continue after six weeks. The biden administration has announced an additional 250 million us dollars in security assistance for ukraine. The us secetary of defense, lloyd austin, made the announcement at the ramstein us air base in germany. But he declined to lift restrictions that bar kyiv from firing americanmade longrange missiles into russia, which ukraine's president zelensky says is the only way to end the war. 0ur europe correspondent nick beake has the latest from kyiv. President zelensky wanted to attend in person this meeting of more than 50 allies at the huge us airbase in western germany because he wanted to take his message to them directly and that message was that they need to ignore any perceived redlines that president putin may have. Mr zelensky said that his allies absolutely immediately had to give him permission to use longrange missiles so that they could hit further into russia, target airfields and other places from where devastating attacks on ukraine are launched. Mr zelensky also had a shortterm warning, saying that a lot of the air defence support that allies pledged to the country has not yet arrived. Lloyd austin, the us secretary of defence said he heard what mr zelensky was saying and announced a new package of aid. He did not focus on the issue of longrange missiles, talking about us being in a critical stage of this war. He spoke about the incursion by ukrainian troops just over one month ago into russia itself, into the kursk region. He said that this proved the russian army, which had been engaged in acts of aggression, was now fighting a defensive battle on their own turf. This has come at a cost, however. President putin vowed to bring retribution, revenge for this ukrainian operation and we have seen an increase in the number of russian strikes over the past week or so, notably on tuesday this week the city of poltava in the centre of ukraine was hit, the most devastating single attack on any ukrainian town or city this year, at least 55 people were killed. A fire at a boarding school in central kenya killed at least 17 students. 70 children are unaccounted for after the blaze at the primary school's dormitory on thursday evening. Hundreds of people tried to help rescue the children, many of whom were sheltering under their beds. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. President william ruto said it was horrific and devastating. 0ur africa correspondent barbara plett usher has the latest from kenya. It's too much to bear, the sudden and violent death of children. Parents return from the damaged dormitory after being told their boys are among the dead. The fire broke out overnight while they were sleeping, i want to go where my child is, this woman cries. The bodies i have seen are of big children. My child has died. The school is in a remote area. Firefighters were delayed by bad roads, but neighbours rushed to try and rescue the boys. In the chaos, some went missing. Anxious relatives waited to hear whether their loved ones were alive. Emergency services brought in to give psychological care, the scramble to determine who lived and who died has drawn national attention. We still have 17 kids that are unaccounted. That does not mean that they have perished or they are injured, the word is that they are unaccounted for. We are praying and hoping for the best. Dna tests will identify the bodies. It may be harder to find what triggered this terrible tragedy. There have been a lot of fires in kenyan boarding schools over the years, many of them said to be because of arson. Now, we don't know what caused this fire, but officials are promising a thorough investigation. But right now, what we're seeing isjust raw grief and anger. Sobbing there is fear that the death toll could rise and hope that it doesn't. Barbara plett usher, barbara plett usher, bbc news, central kenya. Bbc news, central kenya. By a jury on 3a donald trump welcomed donald trump welcomed a new yorkjudge's sentencing a new yorkjudge's sentencing delay in his manhattan delay in his manhattan criminal case on friday criminal case on friday after he and his legal team had after he and his legal team had fought to postpone or dismiss fought to postpone or dismiss the case altogether. Justicejuan merchan ordered the case altogether. Justicejuan merchan ordered the republican presidential the republican presidential nominee's sentencing nominee's sentencing for november 26th, after the us election. For november 26th, after the us election. Trump was convicted trump was convicted by a jury on 3a felony counts of falsifying business records back in may, but has maintained his innocence in the case. Earlier the former president characterised the case as election interference at an address to the fraternal order of police in the battleground state of north carolina. The manhattan da witch hunt against me has been postponed because everyone realises there was no case because i did nothing wrong. It is a witch hunt, an attack by my political opponents in washington, dc. Import. It certainly does. Do ou import. It certainly does. Do you think import. It certainly does. Do you think it import. It certainly does. Do you think it would _ import. It certainly does. Do you think it would have import. It certainly does. Do. You think it would have been, as has been implied, too risky to hold this before the election because of the accusations of political interference? accusations of political interference?. interference? the 'udge did not really have h interference? the 'udge did not really have many interference? thejudge did not really have many good interference? thejudge did not really have many good optionsl really have many good options here, particularly with the da office, essentially not quite consenting to the adjournment but not taking a strong position one way or the other. He was really stuck here and had little option other than to adjourn the case. Frankly that is often the issue for a judge when the request comes from the defence that the judges in a tough spot because they want to make sure all proceedings regarding the sentencing are fair as possible to the defendant so they do need to adjourn the sentencing to maintain that fairness. The conviction _ maintain that fairness. The conviction was _ maintain that fairness. The conviction was months maintain that fairness. The conviction was months ago now. Remind us what donald trump is possibly facing at sentencing. He was convicted on all counts, each of the felony counts, for each of the felony counts, for each felony count he faces a potential four years in each felony count he faces a potentialfour years in prison. The question really is for the judge, will he give him time in prison or not? i think we're going have strong arguments in both directions on that but ultimately the judges decision. He has a lot of discretion on a sentence that he imposes a solid is underfour years. I solid is underfouryears. I also want to ask about something we saw on friday. There was a hearing to appeal the verdict in the sex abuse case as jerry the verdict in the sex abuse case asjerry had found last year the donald trump had sexually abused and defamed the writer ej carroll and in his remarks today we hear